Following an investigation that was led by officers from the Met’s Police Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU), six people, five men and one lady were arrested this week. The suspects are aged 25 to 40 and were arrested in London and County Meath, Ireland on Tuesday and Wednesday. The investigation was called Operation Dynamophone and it [...]
That’s right, there is a malicious e-mail making its rounds with the subject title “McAfee VirusScan Plus”. The e-mail looks fairly legitimate however it does have a few spelling mistakes which is an indicating factor of its illegitimacy. The spam e-mail comes with an attachment and prompts a recipient to download a free trial version [...]
Recent research has revealed that cyber-criminals are making the most out of the Windows shortcut zero-day vulnerability. This zero-day vulnerability affects all Windows versions and it allows a Windows shortcut link, known as an .lnk file, to run a malicious .dll file. A spam e-mail with the subject heading “Microsoft Windows Security Advisory” is currently [...]
Scammers are up to their old tricks again by spamming users with fake lottery-related e-mails titled “NOKIA GRANT PROMOTION” but this time it’s for “2010″. Experienced internet users should know better than to believe such e-mails but for those who are still hoping that maybe it’s “for real”, allow me to inform you that in [...]
Recent spam activity has revealed that spammers are now distributing e-mails with malicious HTML attachments which lead to the download of additional malware. The said spam e-mails have subject headings that cover topics such as Adult Friend Finder, Skype payment problems, Facebook password resets and the most recent one being Delivery Status Notification (Failure). Once [...]
The security news website designed by Symantec to keep users updated about scams linked to the 2010 FIFA World Cup, was hit by opportunistic spammers. The website, 2010NetThreats, was flooded with spam comments and links which advertised everything from clothing, sports shoes, hotels and hand bags. The spam links were posted as comments under most [...]
